For the meatballs, she combines four pounds of pork with 10 pounds of lamb, along with egg, breadcrumbs, toasted ground mulatto chiles, shallots, garlic, thyme and parsley. She shapes the mixture into 1.2-ounce balls, sears them and braises them in lamb stock for about 10 minutes.

Then she adds chopped toasted pistachios, “because it’s delicious, and lamb and pistachios naturally went together in my brain,” she said. The idea came when she was making leg of lamb at home and pistachios were the only nuts she had on hand, she said. Serendipitously, nuts also happen to be popular in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Pederson serves the dish in a miniature cast iron pot, starting with the yogurt on the bottom, then five meatballs, then the chimichurri. The dish sells for $13.